It handled $251 million in bets last year, yielding $19 million to the county treasury in surcharges and profit.
In next year's budget, Preckwinkle aims to roll back the final.25percentt of the hated Stroger sales tax, costing the county treasury $87.8 million.
Citron rose through the ranks of the county's treasury department to become county treasurer-tax collector, a post he held for 24 years.
A grand jury investigation would later find that the treasurer who over the years won so much praise for his investment skills relied upon a mail order astrologer and a psychic for interest rate predictions as the county's treasury began to falter.
Throughout the United States, the indigent and uninsured now get expensive emergency health care courtesy of state, county and local treasuries, as well as hospital corporations that have to charge more to everyone else as a result.
Treasuries slipped after the United States Supreme Court set aside a ruling by the Florida Supreme Court that extended the deadline for hand-counted votes in some counties.
So, are Treasuries terrifying?
Treasuries stumbled lower yesterday.
Treasuries are simply special.
